History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c18.s1.6

c18.s1.6

Another important item of information obtained from the testimony of the Moslem historian is that the eastern portions of the former kingdom of Kanauj were at this time under the domination of Gang, who must be identical with Gāṅgeyadeva Cedi, known to have been ruling in A. D. 1019,² 1030,³ 1037,⁴ and 1041.⁵ The latter's connection with the north may further be supported by the discovery of his coins on the site of Kanauj⁶—although this is a very weak argument—and also by the fact that according to the Jabalpur copperplate he "found salvation" i.e. died at Prayāga along with his hundred wives.⁷ Besides, Gāṅgeyadeva is called Vikramāditya,⁸ and is even styled as "conqueror of the universe" in a Candella inscription found at Mahoba,⁹ which doubtless indicates that he must have extended the bounds of the Cedi realm. His power was, however, eclipsed by the rise of Bhoja who, according to the Kalvan plates,¹⁰ Udepur inscription,¹¹ and the Pārijāta-mañjarī,¹² defeated Gāṅgeya. The Paramāra ruler then carried his arms to distant regions, and in the Udepur praśasti he even claims to have "possessed the earth upto the Kailāśa mountains."¹³ This may not be true literally, but that it contains some grains of historical information is clear from the following verse of the Basahi plate :